RISK ASSESSMENT

Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment

There are many challenges in working on an inpatient psychiatric unit. One common problem that continues to come up is the evaluating process for suicidal ideation and determining which Lucille McKenzie require suicide precautions. According to Hermes, Deakin & Robinson (2009) in their article in Journal Of Psychosocial Nursing. Hermes et al. discussed the process that twelve nurses from a 35-bed adult psychiatric unit in Springfield, Illinois went through as they evaluated their current process of suicide risk assessment and work toward a new and improved tool.

This team of nurses decided their current tool did ...